[Info-vax] [OT] UK referendum, was: Re: London Stock Exchange in merger talks with Deutsche Börse

[Paul Sture]

On 2016-02-25, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
> On 2016-02-24, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>> In article <naimor$kn0$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, Richard Maher
>><maher_rjSPAMLESS at hotmail.com> writes: 
>>
>>> > Of course, the UK referendum will certainly have some role to play here.
>>> 
>>> I was amazed talking to some people over there that at BREXIT looks 
>>> "likely". Can't really blame them after Greece and immigration.
>>> 
>>> Maybe it'll be the Glasgow Stock Exchange merging with DB? Guernsey? Manx?
>>
>> Legally, the merger is independent of whether the UK remains in the EU 
>> or not.  Emotionally, it will bolster the arguments of the anti-EU crowd 
>> in the UK, most of which are similar to "see, they're taking over 
>> everything".
>>
>
> [I've marked this thread as OT so people can easily kill it.]
>
> Actually, one of the major drivers for the population in general is
> going to be the perception of uncontrolled immigration into the UK
> (along with the associated terrorist threats) and whether staying in
> the EU will make things better or worse in this area.
>
> There's also been some talk about how Germany was rewarded (for example
> in the Cologne attacks) by the immigrants it took in so look out for
> some hothead to raise that once again.
>  
> Most people are not really going to care about two stock exchanges
> merging.

Agreed, the referendum outcome will be largely driven by emotional
issues, but the affects on businesses could be profound.

The Japanese car manufacturers originally set up shop in the UK to gain
access to the then EEC market, at a time when they weren't particularly
welcome in France and Germany, for example.

It's potentially a much bigger issue than the UK alone.  Putin almost
certainly wouldn't mind seeing damage to the EU in one form or another
and for US corporations such as Facebook, those pesky privacy laws
might get weakened.  Various parties in the US who see the sheer size
of a united EU as an economic threat no doubt have a vested interest
in the outcome.

> Oh, and we've got 4 more months of this before we can finally vote.
> Oh, wonderful. :-(

Cue someone setting up a news channel which cuts out a lot of that. :-)

Oh, there's a small matter of a bunch of folks like myself who would
almost definitely be affected by the UK's exit but don't get a vote:

<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/12151896/Expats-are-being-frozen-out-on-Europe.html>

> I'm not taking a public position here BTW, but just pointing out what
> is actually making the news here in the UK (at least when Boris and Co
> are not winding up the PM and vice-versa).
>
> We now return you to VMS and it's wonderful future (I hope).

;-)

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